Now in its 8th edition, the Design Educates Awards continue to highlight projects that expand the role of design beyond form and function. The 2026 winners demonstrate how education can be embedded directly into design itself - through materials, structures, public spaces, building processes, and the ways projects encourage people to engage with one another and their surroundings.

This year’s awarded works move across very different scales and contexts, yet many of them share a similar ambition: to make complex ideas visible and tangible.